Good morning and a very happy Friday to you all. Only half a day to go and you will have officially completed your first week of P4 from home! Give yourself and your new teacher a big pat on the back!

I hope this week has been a success and you have earned some Golden Time today! I have bought a new game called, ‘Okay Play’ and it’s very similar to Connect 4. Hopefully my extra training during self-isolation will ensure I am still Primary 4 Connect 4 Champion on our return to school!

Anyway, best do some learning before Golden Time. Here is some maths and literacy learning to keep those brains working today!

Maths

Yesterday, you worked on adding different amounts of money together. Hopefully you managed to work out how much my essentials would cost! Today, we will work on calculating change. This is such an important life skill and one you can use to check you have been given the correct change in a shop!

We use number lines to calculate the change and we jump from how much we have spent to how much we have paid with. I have attached a picture of this strategy as it’s a little too tricky for me to type an explanation. Some children may be able to calculate the change using only two jumps instead of three! Some children may wish to do more than three jumps!

I have attached an activity to practise calculating change. Choose either change from £1 and £2 or the £5 and £10 sheet – I wouldn’t expect the children to do both! Again, there is no pressure to print these out to complete them – working in your jotter or whiteboard is absolutely fine!

Change from £1 and £2

Change from £5 and £10

Literacy

I hope you enjoyed writing and sharing your play scripts yesterday! I wonder if anyone performed their play to their family or maybe some of you put on a puppet show?

We are going to finish this week with a reading activity. You should be reading for fun every day and enjoying books, comics, fact files etc! Reading is very beneficial for your learning but it’s also a relaxing activity that you can do independently!

Use the question fans in your home learning packs to create 3 questions about a text you have read recently. If someone can help, discuss your answers with them. If everyone is a little busy, try writing the answers to each question down. Remember to answer in sentences and give a reason if it’s appropriate!

I’d imagine your weekend may be a little different to usual – I know mine will be. Some of you may even get to enjoy a long lie for the first time in a while! Enjoy spending time with your family and here’s hoping we get some sunshine to enjoy during our daily exercise! Stay safe and I’ll be in touch on Monday.

Miss Prentice

Good morning everyone!

I hope that your learning packs and website updates are helping you to continue your learning at home. Most importantly though, I hope you are all well and are making time to relax, have fun and help out around the house!

Here is some intended learning for today and some tasks to support your learning.

Numeracy

You must all now be amazing at adding numbers after all the practice this week! Today, let’s practise adding different amounts of money. We learned this skill before Christmas! You may remember us adding together how much Molly, Walton and Spider Lady’s Christmas presents would cost me!

Here is an example:

£1.46 + £3.73

1. Firstly, let’s add the pounds together: £1 + £3 = £4
2. Now, let’s add the pence together: 46p + 73p = 119p
3. We then need to change 119p into pounds and pence. To do this, we need to remember that there are 100p in £1 so 119p = £1.19
4. Now add together £4 and £1.19 = £5.19

If this is too tricky, begin by just adding pennies together and using a number line to help you. For example, 36p + 43p. If you’re up for a challenge, why not add larger amounts of money together or add more than two amounts together?

I’ve attached some items I would quite like to buy at the shops just now! Try adding two of the costs together.

Shopping

Literacy

Yesterday, I suggested planning a scene for a play script. Today’s task is to write the scene! We have been working on play scripts in class and we agreed on the things a play script needs to be successful.

These included:

–          A description of the setting

–          A narrator to set the scene for the audience

–          Speaker’s name on the left and a colon after their name

–          Take a new line for each speaker

–          Stage directions are in brackets

I have attached the model text, a scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to help you.

Model text

Missing you all,

Miss Prentice

Good morning P4,

Another day, another couple of learning activities to keep those P4 brains working! 

Numeracy

So far this week, you have been adding up to 3 digit numbers and then using your adding skills to find the missing number.

Today, let’s use those addition skills to solve some maths problems. Try the ‘Wednesday Workout’ in your maths problem solving booklets. This booklet is in your home learning packs. 

I have also attached an addition pyramids worksheet at the bottom of this post. There are three different levels of difficulty and the answers are attached too (no peeking!).

The two numbers below a box add to make the number above. You do not need to print this worksheet to complete it! You can simply work out the answers and write these answers in your jotter or on your whiteboard!

Literacy

Wednesday is writing day! Today, let’s focus on planning a piece of writing – a scene from a play script. Decide where the scene will be set, which characters you will include and decide what will happen in the scene. Maybe you could use a mind map to plan your piece of writing?

Remember, it is okay to borrow an idea from one of your favourite books or films! Tomorrow I’ll upload a model text to help you to write your play script.

Remember – be kind to yourself and make time to do lots of fun things too! Play a game, draw a picture and get some fresh air! Addition pyramids

Take care,

Miss Prentice